Tuesday, August 21, 2018

3 Practical Tools To Help Regulators Develop Better Laws And Policies

The active ingredient in Roundup is detected in nearly all popular oat-based snack bars and cereals in the US.
The Guardian 
Make flexible work successful 


This $60,000 ice cream is the most expensive in the world — here’s what you get CNBC

Why is San Francisco … covered in human feces? Guardian


US regulators target Facebook on discriminatory housing ads ABC. Regulatory arbitrage, thy name is Silicon Valley….




Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University. 3 Practical Tools To Help Regulators Develop Better Laws And Policies a Policy Paper on Autonomous Vehicles, July 2018

“Regulators and policymakers are driving efforts to deliver the benefits of automated vehicles (AVs) to the public as soon as possible, while minimizing their potential challenges. However, there are still many open questions regarding the best approach to achieving this objective. Key stakeholders—including regulators, policymakers, industry, citizens, and academia—have not yet reached a consensus on the approaches regulators should take in developing robust public policies for the governance of AVs. Understanding the types of regulatory challenges for AVs and using new practical tools or using traditional tools in a different way, would help with this problem of developing better AV policies and regulations. This policy paper analyzes several categories of regulatory challenges surrounding AVs and introduces three practical tools (Legal Interfaces, Law Labs, and Structured Dialogues) that can be utilized by policymakers and regulators in developing effective AV policies.”


Elizabeth Warren’s Batty Plan to Nationalize EverythingNational Review. UserFriendly: “ROFLMAO”
No end in sight for the homeless – Rough sleepingEconomist (UserFriendly). Important.
What Is Living and What Is Dead in Social Democracy?Tony Judt, New York Review of Books (UserFriendly). From 2009.



Elizabeth Warren’s Batty Plan to Nationalize EverythingNational Review. UserFriendly: “ROFLMAO”
No end in sight for the homeless – Rough sleepingEconomist (UserFriendly). Important.
What Is Living and What Is Dead in Social Democracy?Tony Judt, New York Review of Books (UserFriendly). From 2009.





How governments can better defend themselves against cyberattacks
"The threat of retaliation can keep the peace. But that assumes you know who is attacking you" (Kellogg Insight)




The Decline of American Public Administration
"After a period of innovation and creativity driven by economists, the field of public administration seems to have lost its way again. " (The American Interest )





Agency heads allowing regulations to wilt ‘until failure’: Treasury insiders
VERONA BURGESS: Two Treasury executives have tackled the hot-button $65-billion annual impost of regulation in a submission to the APS review, saying department heads should be legally required to clean up their stocks of red tape.

Where to for an Australian republic?
GEOFF GALLOP: What sort of republic do we we want and and how do we get there, asks the former WA Premier in the 2018 Daniel Deniehy Oration.


RC questions whether ASIC used its powers | Money Management



Businessman threatened to expose Plutus tax fraud scheme